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Oh my goodness TM, decisions, decisions, such a difficult choice, the pink meat thing, or the bagel and fresh fruit, hmm, how about I eat the gorgeous bagel and fresh fruit, and you have the delicious concoction from the NHS.

Well, I don't think I'd touch the chicken, if I were you, because it doesn't look properly cooked to me. Now some meat is fine a bit pink - chicken isn't one of them. It's a definite no-no. As for the pud - well it might be all right - but it looks as though it collided with the plate rather than being put carefully on it. SOOOO - no contest - it's bagel and fruit salad for lunch today. Three cheers for Mrs TM.

What I find disturbing is that instead of taking the ingredients it took to make that nastiness at the top and using them in a fresh and straight forward way, they cook the living hades out of them and offer you something that barely resembles food. I hope that our awareness of how much this sucks continues to grow to the extent that institutions stop doing this.

gosh, I didn't think food could look so disgusting - I thought the chicken was slices of cheap ham packed into a breadcrumb batter until someone actually defined it as chicken. I'd go for the Mrs TM food if I were you, you should get her to bring in a fridge and stock it up so you could help yourself till next week. I hope you get out of there before you get malnutrition. Hope you enjoy a day of company with Mrs TM.

Dear TM, too bad you had to take the panino yesterday: now you know again how better looking food tastes! That panino blew it.I'm down as well, with a cervical prolapsed disc, although not in a hospital (yet...).

Go with the meaty thing and play hospital roulette instead of hospital bingo !! Besides which if you do take a turn for the worse you can conduct a survey on how long you have to wait for the very urgent bed pan !!!

Well I guess you opted for the right things: salmon bagel and fruit salad. Hooray for Ms TM!! I was in a university catering spot today and we got a dish that consisted of fish with a potato mash crust on top of it and some potato slices baked in some salted egg custard next to it. I had to think of you. Only to do them justice it was seasoned not too badly and the crust was crunchy and there even was a sprig of parsley as decoration. I have never seen a sprig of any kind of fresh herb on your NHS bingo food plates. Iou'd think that it couldn't ruin them, could it?Best wishes! Barbara

Well done Mrs TM! That meat thing on the main looks wrong, wrong, wrong. The bagel looks lovely (with a nice addition of fresh lemon and black pepper, I see) and the fruit salad looks absolutely wonderful.I thought of you today TM. I visited YO Sushi for the first time today. I was going to take a picture of my food but thought that would be like offering chocolate to a diabetic. You can hire out a mobile conveyor belt and they will bring food along; I thought of you straight away. Do you reckon the NHS will pay for it?

@anonymous 20:53This blog is not about your boredom, but it is about ill persons being entitled to get fed, so they may develop the energy that it takes to heal. By the way, many times it is moaning that helps overcome the difficulties of life. You yourself probably were born surrounded by moans and cries, like most uf us. Hopefully a new or modified NHS food policy will be born out of TM's "moans". And I think I haven't heard as many spirited and funny moans as his, given the circumstances. And if you don't like the blog, stop reading it. Barbara

Perhaps you wouls care to sample the delights of hospital food for a few months and see how it improved your health. It could be that you could cancel your subscription to weightwatchers. Go and read soemthing else if you can't see what this is really about.

@Anonymous 20.53 yeah right, you're so bored with this you even go on to another page of the same blog and put up an equally tiresome comment. This doesn't sound like someone who is bored, it sounds like someone who, for his own purposes, probably commercial/financial, wants TM shut up. Sorry mate, this isn't the way to do it.

As I was rude on both blogs, so I apologise wholeheartedly on both blogs.And actually I am someone who cares deeply about hospital food, I just don't think this is the way to tackle the problem.Get well soon TM - as I said on the other blog, I am bowing out.

Notes from a hospital bed

Fractured freelance journalist now released from traction and walking again. Recuperating at home with good food and fine friends. Growing increasingly angry about the scandal of nutritional neglect in our hospitals.